Frank, there is a high incidence of "Plumber's Luck" in finding great guns. Years ago a local plumber in MD sent his helper upstairs in an old house whose hot air heating system they had just upgraded, with instructions for the helper to check the airflow through the vents in all the rooms on the second and third floor.
The helper reported "all good" except for a bedroom on the third floor, where the floor register was blocked by a long cardboard box that the helper was afraid to move because "it had some kind of gun in it." Our plumber friend went upstairs and found a Parker VHE .410 in the box that had a rubber recoil pad that had been literally melted into a puddle from years of heated air under it.
Out friend displayed the gun for years at shows, primarily for the oddity of the melted pad, which looked like something in a Dali painting. He finally sold the gun at the Allentown PA show in a package deal along with a very nice DHE 20 gauge to a man who turned out to be a DuPont executive from Wilmington DE and was on the hunt for "good Parkers."
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